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Unit 3 – The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on New York
State
This glossary includes vocabulary words, definitions, and pictures. These slides can be
viewed as a whole class PowerPoint presentation and can be printed as thumbnail slides for students to have as a study guide.
They can also be printed in full size and placed on the wall of the classroom.
Created by the fourth grade teachers at Byram Hills
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canala man made inland waterway
built for transportation or irrigation
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child laboryoung children who worked in
factories or mines beginning as young as 5 years old
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ditcha long narrow channel or trench dug into the earth
excavatingdigging out and removing
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factorya building or set of buildings equipped for manufacturing
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heritagesomething acquired from the
past
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homelandnative land (where you were
born)
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immigranta person who comes to a country
to live there
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lockan enclosure, or chamber in a canal, with watertight gates at each end (Used for
raising or lowering boats from one elevation to another by filling or draining water in the
chamber.)
http://www.eriecanal.org/locks.html
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locomotivea self-propelled engine, running on rails, used to move cars for
passengers and freight
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low bridgea bridge built right above the water
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millsmachines used in treating (as by
grinding, crushing, stamping, cutting or finishing) raw material
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packet boata special boat designed to carry
passengers instead of cargo (Packets traveled faster than cargo boats.)
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passagea right to travel as a passenger on a
boat
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porta harbor town or city where ships
load or unload cargo
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protesta complaint, objection, or display of
unwillingness or disapproval
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raw materialsnatural or unprocessed minerals or
plants from which useful products are derived or manufactured.
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reformto change things for the better
social reformthe attempt to improve or
change the unequal treatment of people
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ruralrelating to the country, country
people or life, or agriculture
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steam enginean engine driven or worked by steam
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stump pullera machine used to remove the base
of trees (called stumps)
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suburbanrelating to a smaller community close to a
city
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suffragethe right to vote
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technologythe use of science in solving problems
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tolla small fee people pay to use a canal, bridge,
or road
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tradethe buying, selling, or exchange of
goods
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transportationthe moving of goods or people from
one place to another
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urbanrelating to a city
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wedding of the waters
the merging of two major waterways by the Erie Canal
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working conditionslow pay, long hours, and dangerous physical environment in the factories and mines for workers during the Industrial Revolution